Kanji1 / 10
座 kanji
squat, seat, cushion, gathering, sit
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ザ
Kun readings
すわる
Words with 座
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —風鳥座Apus (constellation); the Bird-of-Paradise
- —鳳凰座Phoenix (constellation)
- —たて座Scutum (constellation); the Shield
- —鉄砲座gunmakers guild
- —こと座Lyra (constellation); the Lyre
- —馭者座Auriga (constellation); the Charioteer
- —座繰りreeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature; counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing; hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.)
- —上座部Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
- —連座制system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)
- —座頭虫harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)
- —小網座Reticulum (constellation); the Reticle
- —十字座Crux (constellation)
- —座禅草eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
- —座するto sit; to squat; to be implicated
- —縦座標ordinate
- —座標点coordinate point
- —座敷犬dog that is mainly kept indoors
- —座持ちentertaining guests
- —お座敷tatami room; dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko
- —仁座鯛scalpel sawtail (Prionurus scalprum)